given the scrutiny around Tesla, it’s interesting this story doesn’t seem to have come out sooner since this is a fairly novel workplace accident
the latter will necessarily follow from the former in almost every situation
no, it will not and does not.
“over-stressing workers and pressing them to be as efficient as possible, causing them to cut corners with safety” is such a universal point of failure that it’s frequent in every modern industry and a contributing factor in a huge number of workplace incidents and industrial disasters. respectfully, you would have to actively ignore reality to hold the position you currently do, and if you think that’s the worker’s fault and not the company incentivizing them to do unsafe things to keep their jobs, i can really only describe you as a corporate apologist or bootlicker
Keyword in your statement is “over”.
the company incentivizing them to do unsafe things
I presume you have evidence that you’d like to present to back up the idea that this is indeed what’s happening? Or are we just assuming that’s what happened?
Trust me, they don’t want you to get hurt. It costs them a whole lot more than any perceived increase in productivity when you get hurt. I’ve worked at corps that were on my back all day long about safety, to an annoying degree, and it wasn’t out of genuine concern, I promise.
i can really only describe you as a corporate apologist or bootlicker
Well that’s incredibly rude and unnecessary. Is this how you treat everyone you have disagreements with?
FWIW I’ve been a mechanical engineer for decades and they are right about this. Trust me instead. They’re probably reacting with hostility because you’re way out of line here; what you’re arguing is anti-labor.
There is a profitable balance between productivity and safety, and they’ll say one thing while firing people who are too unproductive.
